PYATIGORSK. July 7 (Interfax) - The Chechen Supreme Court is to hear the case of Zilaud Bisultanov, who, according to investigators, was a member of a gang that killed 16 servicemen, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office Directorate for the North Caucasus Federal District (NCFD) said on Monday.
"Investigators established that in June 1996 Bisultanov participated in the killing of 16 professional members of the Russian Armed Forces and one unidentified civilian in the woods in near the village of Roshni in Chechnya's Urus-Martan district in June 1996," the statement said.
He personally killed three of them, according to the press release.
Bisultanov is charged with committing crimes under Article 102(v)(g)(z)(n) of the Russian Criminal Code (conspiring and willfully killing two and more persons in relation to their fulfillment of their professional and public duty, with particular brutality).
The case was investigated by the Russian Investigative Committee's Main Investigative Directorate for the NCFD.